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EARLY JEWELERS MSTORY OF SATISFACTION' VOYPHEAD CITY
COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE
Checking Accounts
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IRST CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY
Savings
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Installment Loans
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Established 1898
821-823 Arendell St. Morehead City
Drive-In Branch. Atlantic Beach
411 Front St. Beaufort
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
MOREHEAD CITY DRUG CO. "THE MATTHEWS BOYS'
THE ONLY UP-TOWN DRUG STORE In practically the samo location for more than 35 years. The only Luncheonette Service In this area.Completo Cosmetic Department - Beach Supplies.
811 ARENDELL ST.
Dial PArk 6-4360
SUNSHINE LAUNDRY and LAUNDERETTE
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SERVICE
Special One-Day Service PICK-UP and DELIVERY Phone PArk 6-4440
FAROL IN DRY CLEANING
APPROVED SANITONE SERVICE
BRIDGES cor. 17th
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
923 ABENDELL ST.
INSURED SAVINGS
OF WILMINGTON, N. C.
Cooperative Savings and Loan Association
TEL. PARK 6-6770
GEORGE W. DILL & SONS
1107 BRIDGES ST.
MOREHEAD CITY, N. C. FUNERALS SINCE 1900 AMBULANCE SERVICE
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
HILL DIRECTORY CO., Inc., publishers of Southeastern Directories, (Publishers of the Morehead City-Beaufort Direc- tory since 1958), present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1961 edition of the Morehead City-Beaufort City Direc- tory, which also includes Atlantic Beach and Rural Route Residents.
Confidence in the growth of Morehead City-Beaufort's in- dustry, population and wealth, and in the advancement of their civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly re- flecting Morehead City-Beaufort to the world.
The enviable position occupied by HILL'S Directories in the estimation of the public, has been established by rendering the best in Directory service. 'With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation of the busi- ness and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the results of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Morehead City-Beaufort Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information per- taining to the community.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the first major de- partment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of Morehead City-Beaufort, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activi- ties of Morehead City-Beaufort. Preceding this catalog, like- wise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertise- ments and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages repre- sent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In progressive communities like Morehead City- Beaufort, the necessity of having this kind of information up- to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Di- rectory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the com- mercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is the second major department, printed on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, oc- cupation and address of each adult resident of Morehead City-
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Beaufort and Atlantic Beach, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the com- munity.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUD- ING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major de- partment, printed on green paper. In this section the num- bered streets are arranged in numerical order followed by the named streets in alphabetical order; the numbers of the resi- dences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the house- holders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the listing of telephone numbers.
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, on blue paper, is the fourth major department.
Community Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the community, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broad- cast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Morehead City- Beaufort and vicinity.
The Out-Of-Town City Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Morehead City-Beaufort City Directory, a Directory Library is main- tained in the offices of the Morehead City Chamber of Com- merce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 1,000 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recogni- tion by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Acme Movers & Storage Co Inc
bottom stencil, right top lines, 37 and 44 Atlantic Beach Grading Co
back lip margin, left side lines and
11
Baker John A Agency left top lines and 42 Bayside Metal Works right side lines, 3 and 30
Bell-Munden Funeral Home
top stencil, left side lines and 26
Byrd's Metal Works left side lines and 31 Carolina Oil & Distributing Co back cover, left side lines and 22 Carolina Power & Light Co back cover, left top lines and 17
Carolina Water Co
left top lines and 45 Carteret Concrete Co
front lip margin, left side lines and 9
Carteret-Craven Electric Membership Corp
left side lines and 18 Cooperative Savings & Loan Association of Wil- mington, N C ...... front cover, left top lines and Dill George W & Sons
43
front cover, right top lines and 27 Duncan Insurance Agency ... left side lines, B, 32 and
41 E J W Bicycle & Sports Shop
right bottom lines and 44
Early Jewelers front cover, left top lines and 33 First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co
front cover, right side lines, 6 and 35
Freeman D A Upholstery left side lines and 45 General Wholesale Building Supply Co back cover, right bottom lines and 8
Hall's Dry Cleaners left side lines and 16
Hill Directory Co Inc
13 39
Lawrence Will Jr ... back cover, right side lines and Machine & Supply Co Inc. right side lines and 36 Maola Milk & Ice Cream Co left side lines and 12
Morehead City Drug Co
front cover, right side lines, 14 and 40
Ocean Oil Co front stencil, left side lines and Ottis Fish Market
23 19 7 24
Pepsi-Cola Distributing Co ...... left bottom lines and Potter T T "Tom" & Son Inc ...... right top lines and S & M Gas & Appliance Co ...... right bottom lines and Sportsman's Pier ...... backbone, left side lines, 20 and Stevenson Brick & Block Co ... right bottom lines and Sunshine Laundry & Launderette
front cover, left and right side lines, 15 and 34 Tire Service Co right bottom lines and 4
28
21 10
Van Horn Oil Co ... front cover, right top lines, 25 and 38
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WMBL Radio Station
Page
back cover, left top lines and 2 Western Auto Associate Store ...... left side lines and 5 Wetherington Glass Shop
back cover, right side lines and 29 Willis Jerry J Real Estate & Insurance Agency left side lines, 32 and 41
MOREHEAD CITY
"Port of Progress" (Courtesy Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
FORM OF GOVERNMENT-Mayor and five Town Commis- sioners; Incorporated as town, 1858.
POPULATION-Last official U. S. Census report (1960) 5,583. Total colored population, 12 percent. American-born popu- lation is 95 percent of the whole. Predominating national- ities of foreign-born residents, very few in all.
AREA-1.82 square miles.
ALTITUDE-11 feet above sea level.
CLIMATE-Mean annual temperature: 64. degrees F .; aver- age annual rainfall: 53.26 inches.
PARKS-1 with total acreage of 4 acres, with land being loaned by the State.
ASSESSED VALUATION-$10,529,521.00, with $1.75 per $100.00 tax rate.
FINANCIAL DATA-2 banks. 1 Building Loan Assn.
POSTAL RECEIPTS-$80,000.00 for year ended Dec. 31, 1958. CHURCHES-15, representing 11 denominations.
INDUSTRY-Chief industries of the city and surrounding ter- ritory: commercial fishing, garment manufacture, asphalt roofing and shingles, lumber mills, boat building. Number of manufacturing establishments: 11, employing 520 men and 250 women. Principal manufactured products: gar- ments, asphalt products, boats, fish oils and scrap, lumber products.
TRADE AREA-Retail area has radius of 25 miles, and popu- lation of 40,000. Wholesale area has radius of 45 miles, and population of 60,000.
NEWSPAPERS-semi-weekly, one.
RADIO BROADCASTING STATIONS-WMBL and WBMA.
HOTELS-6, with total of 300 rooms. Newest hotel opened in 1957.
MOTELS-22, with total of 650 rooms.
RAILROADS-City served by 2 railroads, as follows: Atlantic & East Carolina; a part Southern Railway System. More- head City-Beaufort R.R.
BUS LINES-City served by one intra-city bus line, as fol- lows: Seashore Transportation Co.
HIGHWAYS-The following highways run through, or to, the city: U. S. 70, N. C. 24 and N. C. 101.
AIR LINES-City served by one air line, as follows: Piedmont Airlines.
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Morehead City Port Docks
Morehead City Waterfront
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AIRPORTS-one County Airport.
AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATIONS-1,441.
AMUSEMENTS-Largest auditorium in city seats 800 persons. Number of moving-picture theatres, 3. Number of golf courses in, or near, the city 1 - 18 hole. Other amusement features are: Little Theater Group, bathing, boating, fish- ing piers, riding stables, and hunting in season.
HOSPITALS-one with total of 75 beds.
EDUCATION-Number of public schools, 8, with 6 senior high schools. Number of parochial schools, 1. Number of pupils in public schools, 5,720; in parochial schools, 42. Number of teachers in public schools, 207; in parochial schools, 3.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-one, with total of 10,356 volumes.
CITY STATISTICS-Total street mileage, 18.80. Miles of sew- er, 24.5. Number of water meters, 1,852; light meters, 3,005; bottled gas. Capacity of water works, 94,600 gallons per hour, 161/2 miles of mains. Fire department has 7 paid men, with 2 stations and 6 pieces of motor equipment. Value of fire department real estate and equipment, $120,- 000.00. Police department has 11 men, with one station and 3 pieces of motor equipment.
General Review
Morehead City is named for John Motley Morehead Gov- ernor of North Carolina, 1841-1845, who firmly believed that this location had the potentialities of becoming one of the great Atlantic seaports. Gov. Morehead purchased 600 acres of land at the terminal of the railroad he had been instru- mental in establishing in 1855. The town laid off in home sites had its streets named for directors of the original Shepard's Point Land Company. The peninsula was formerly known as Shepard's Point. The town was chartered in 1858.
Morehead City's ocean port has the most complete facili- ties in the state and lies only 45 minutes from the sea lanes. The terminal is state owned and is one of the few state operat- ed ports showing an individual profit. Morehead is bounded by the Newport River, Calico Creek and Bogue Sound and is 1 mile from the ocean and Atlantic Beach.
The city is stretched out on a three-mile-long peninsula which juts out into the Newport River and the Ocean Port Terminal.
On the water front is the finest Charter Fishing Fleet on the Atlantic Coast and world-famous sea-food restaurants. The Inland Water-way separates Morehead City and Atlantic Beach.
The Morehead City Country Club offers 18 of the finest holes for the occasional or serious golfer.
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Morehead City Post Office
The Morehead City Municipal Building
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Hotels, motels, tourist courts, trailer parks and a shopping center which is open six days a week offer diversification for the vacationist.
Although just one hundred years old Morehead City has developed into one of the most active and progressive towns in the State. Known through the early years as a popular sum- mer resort with it's wide expanse of oceanside beach and re- sort attractions, it has taken on of late years a progress of commercial development.
To a large extent this recent growth has come about as an outgrowth of a Port Terminal, conceived in the mind of the late John M. Morehead over one hundred years ago, offering advantages of ocean and inland water transportation so es- sential to commercial life.
The close proximity to the sea-lane of ocean commerce and travel, only five miles from sea-lane to port, through a channel of sufficient depth, allow the largest ocean-going craft to enter the harbor. 'With combined rail, highway and water shipping facilities, the location of Morehead City is ideal for industries served by such utilities.
Morehead City has grown from a small plot of land pur- chased and opened up by Mr. Morehead as a town in the fall of 1857. Annexation of adjoining sections through the years has more than doubled the original site.
Home building has kept pace with the town's expansion, from the small attractive home of the average family to those of large income. Added to the cost of the business and manu- facturing structures, the average cost overall, over a period of eight years covers more than half a million dollars yearly. Development corporations, both within the city as well as near- by sections, announce an extensive program of building new homes to meet the steady demand of home-owners of all finan- cial status.
Its midway location between the extreme north and the extreme south, gives the city and surrounding section a most equitable climate the year around. Ocean winds temper the heat of summer, the waters of the Gulf Stream a few miles off shore help to make the winters mild and of short duration.
No where along the Atlantic coast can the ocean beach, adjoining the city on the south, be excelled for the beauty of its sand dunes and shore vegetation, its safe bathing beach with no undertow.
History is written in the long stretch of Bogue Banks. Blackbeard the pirate is claimed to have visited Banks in his days of privateering. Some persons like to believe he hid much of his loot in the sands. Such is yet to be found, al- though many a searcher has spent hours digging for "pirate gold.'
Upon the shores of the Banks has drifted the wreckage of boats and men of three wars, within a hundred years. The sound and outer ocean has given a livelihood to many through the years, either fishermen or whalers, from the early days of
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the county's settlement to present day. No better fishing grounds for pleasure or profit can be found along the Atlantic coast than off the shores of Carteret County. There are seven ocean fishing piers.
Those seeking historic lore will be rewarded by a study of county history. Quakers played an important part in the early days of the county's settlement. From the outer world came settlers of various nationalities. Many came by ship through Old Topsail Inlet to land at Beauford. Others treked their way along rough Indian trails from the colonies to the north. This mingling of personalities produced an heterogene- ous group, out of which came the men and women who helped to establish the early settlements of the county.
Along with the varied commercial and economic life of the community the christian and educational opportunities have not been overlooked. Such meet the demands of all faiths, while the educational advantages and social and civic organi- zations, furnish an opportunity for study and community bet- terment.
The spirit of that early pioneer, John M. Morehead, still carries on, and his dream of a busy port and a great indus- trial city is being realized.
Golf Course
The Morehead City Country Club, just a few miles from the City limits, offers outdoor recreation for the Golf enthusi- ast every month of the year. The beautiful 18-hole course overlooks the tidal Newport River, its greens and rolling fair- ways wind around tall stands of stately pines which offer shade and also protection from occasional gusty breezes. A new Club House and swimming pool will soon be under con- struction. New homes are springing up rapidly in the Country Club vicinity but there are still a few ideal homesites avail- able either on the waterfront or the highway.
This is truly a golfers' paradise, no snow or ice, few hot days and no long rainy season. Bring your golf clubs along and try it out.
Fort Macon
Located at the eastern end of Bogue Banks, overlooking the Beaufort (Topsail) Inlet, Fort Macon and the forts which preceded it, have guarded the Ports of Morehead City and Beaufort two centuries. The present Fort was built in 1826 and completed in 1834. It is an outstanding example of military architecture and a monument to the craftsmanship of the brick-masons of the 19th century.
Stone jetties, designed by Robert E. Lee then a young Lieutenant, can be plainly seen jutting out into the ocean and sound where they have held back erosion since about 1842. Lit- tle did Lee dream that thousands of tourists from all over the U. S. would fish from these solid barriers every year.
Taken over by the Confederate State at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Macon was recaptured by Federal troops
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under Gen. J. G. Parke in 1862. The battle-scars still show on the masonry, in spite of attempts to hide them with patchwork.
About a mile west is the Fort Macon State Park Beach, a smooth white stretch of gleaming sand, surrounded by majes- tic dunes. The State provides a large parking area for cars, public bath houses, lifeguard service, also picnic tables and a large shelter for use in case of rain.
New Housing Projects
Bayshore Park, Morehead City Mitchell Village, Morehead City Sound View Park, Morehead City Spooners Creek Harbor, Morehead City Emerald Isle, Atlantic Beach Pine Knoll Shores, Atlantic Beach Sound View Isles, Atlantic Beach
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ATLANTIC BEACH
Atlantic Beach, an incorporated town, is just across the bridge from Morehead City. This is the most developed spot on the twenty-two miles of matchless, east-west, beach on Bogue Banks. Even though this is one of the safest beaches on the coast ample and efficient lifeguard service is provided. The Marina's, launching ramps, bowling, pool, miniature golf, kiddie rides and just about every kind of amusements line the boardwalk as it approaches. Hotels, motels, lodges, restaurants and snack bars are convenient to the beach and the causeway. Seven ocean fishing piers near the beach make fishing most convenient. On the Causeway there are two fishing piers which extend out over Bogue Sound for those who prefer fish- ing in the calmer waters. The beaches on the sound offer still water sports to the children, skiing to those who like the thrill and boating or sailing to all who like the water.
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